Founded as City Squeeze in 1977, City Paper is Baltimore's dominant newsweekly. The paper targets active, well-educated, 21-49 year olds attracted to our contemporary coverage of current affairs, politics, lifestyles, the cultural arts and entertainment. Well known for the area's...

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This year, City Paper thought we could put my kids' general lack of experience with or interest in Santa to good use. They've never talked to a Mall Santa, so we visited four of them, and got the kids to review their interactions with the emotional distance only a Jewish kid could provide.